Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] know [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 2 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 4 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 5 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 6 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 7 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 8 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 9 | At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings ; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning . |
| 10 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 11 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish I 'd known that . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I wish I 'd known that . |
| 14 | Gee , if only I 'd known that earlier in life . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd known this a few days ago , it woulda saved a lotta trouble . |
| 16 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
| 17 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 18 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 19 | I did know that . |
| 20 | but I did know that one . |
| 21 | And I said oh yes Mr I said know all the carols . |
| 22 | Jeremy Isaacs and I had know each other for a long time . |
| 23 | As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 25 | ‘ Even though I had known this man for years , I could not cope with seeing him alone , ’ she said . |
| 26 | And if I had known this my justification for believing that they are playing at home would be defeated , because I also believe that they normally accept such invitations . |
| 27 | I had known this lady for many years and could claim to have had a friendly relationship with her . |
| 28 | The dream ended with the thought that if I had known this was the main road I need not have resorted to the acrobatics that had brought me there . |
| 29 | She proposes consequently the following paraphrase of I was sorry to fail : If I had known this : this will happen to me ( I will fail ) I would have thought this : this will be bad , I will feel sorry when I thought this : I know this now : it happened to me I felt it ( sorry ) |
| 30 | Not put here by chance then ; someone had known this street . |